An optical routing device that includes a mounting component which includes a rechargeable battery and a processor that communicates over-the-air with a master communication device or one or more service communication devices via RF supervisory links. The processor receives an instruction via the RF supervisory links to control a movement of the mounting component along with the optical routing component such that an angle or a direction of deflection of laser beams from an optical routing component of optical routing device is changed. The one or more laser beams are deflected from the optical routing component over-the-air for free-space optical communication among the master communication device and the one or more service communication devices via at least the optical routing device independent of optical fibers.
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2. The first optical routing device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to perform a range measurement to compute a distance between the first optical routing device and an optical node, wherein the optical node is one of: a second optical routing device, the master communication device or one of the one or more service communication devices.
3. The first optical routing device according to claim 2, wherein the processor is further configured to adjust, based on the range measurement, beam divergence of the one or more laser beams for data signal transmission across a laser beam based wireless network.
6. The first optical routing device according to claim 1, further comprising a memory configured to store optical path options, wherein the optical path options are different fall-back laser-link options available to a given optical routing device to establish a laser beam connectivity.
10. The first optical routing device according to claim 1, further comprising one or more sensors configured to measure an orientation and a level of the optical routing component with respect to a reference surface to maintain an alignment of an optical path with one or more of: the master communication device, one or more second optical routing devices, and the one or more service communication devices.
11. The first optical routing device according to claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to communicate the measured orientation, the level, and location data of the first optical routing device over the one or more RF supervisory links to the master communication device or a cloud server.
12. The first optical routing device according to claim 1, further comprising a temperature sensor, wherein the processor is further configured to determine a thermomechanical-induced change in an alignment of an optical path of the first optical routing device with one or more of: the master communication device, one or more second optical routing devices, and the one or more service communication devices.
14. The first optical routing device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to receive a Laser Beam Network Control (LBNC) instructions from the master communication device or a cloud server.
15. The first optical routing device according to claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to dynamically adjust an orientation of the optical routing component, based on the LBNC instructions received from the master communication device or the cloud server.
16. The first optical routing device according to claim 1, wherein the instruction to control the movement of the mounting component is received from the master communication device or a cloud server via the one or more RF supervisory links, and wherein the processor is further configured to switch and re-align the one or more laser beams in a real-time or a near real-time to a different destination device based on a change in the angle or the direction of deflection of the one or more laser beams from the optical routing component.
20. The first optical routing device according to claim 1, wherein the first optical routing device is a passive optical node that is independent of amplification of signals in the deflected one or more laser beams, and wherein each of the master communication device and the one or more service communication devices is a wireless access point or a wireless router, a home gateway device, a fixed wireless access (FWA) device, or a network controller.
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